Display device.



A. GARTNER.

DISPLAY DEVICE.

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Specication of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 22, 1919.

Application lcd January 14, 1918. Serial No. 211,889.

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALFRED GARTNER, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Washington, District of Columbia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Display Devices, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in display devices, and its object is to provide such a device, of simple and cheap construction, sensational and effective when being used.

The invention consists in the improved display device, combining means having an exposed question and movable means constituting concealed answer, together with illustrations, mottos, words, etc., appropriate to the question or answer, or both, as will be hereinafter more fully described and finally embodied in the clauses of the claim.

In the accompanying drawings:

Figure is a front elevation of my improved display device, showing the essential parts fully exposed to view, and

Fig. 2 a top plan view of Fig. 1.

In said drawings, a represents a frame or plate, made of wood, metal or other suitable material, in any shape desired, but preferably in the shape of a cartridge, provided with suitable means, such as eyelets b, b for suspending said frame, and also provided at its rear with brackets f, g forming bearings for the axle or spindle d, which is held in normal position by a spiral spring c, all of which is VVof well known construction.

On the axle or'spindle d is secured one end of a screen or curtain c of thin metal, silk, or other suitable material, the other end of said screen c being provided with a bar or pin o, to which is secured a cord p, by means of which the screen or curtaincan be pulled out to view, when desired.

On the frame or plate a is printed or otherwise arranged an appropriate question, such as What will kill kaiserism? while the screen or curtain c is preferably divided up, and contains, besides the appropriate concealed answer, such as an American flag, or

another suitable motton or emblem,-illusv trations or sentences of patriotic nature, or

otherwise, which displays are intended to connect with or be appropriate to the question and answer.

In the combination illustrated, the American flag constitutes the concealed answer, and the same is supported by the U. S. fighting forces (only one soldier being shown) marching On to Berlin, and the latter being supported by money partly raised from the sale of War savings stamps, which fact is brought out by the additional display on the lower end of the screen or curtain.

Preferably the device is suspended with the screen or curtain rolled up or concealed behind the frame or plate, and when operated after reading the exposed question, the concealed answer, the American flag, is exposedto view, simultaneously explaining to the operator or inquirer that the army will support the flag, and that money is required to support the army.

It will be manifest that other exposed questions and concealed answers connected with suitable illustrations, words mottos, etc., can be used, and that sliding or disappearing means, of well known construction, can be substituted for the rolling-up means,

without changing the scope of my invention.

What I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is: Y

1. In a device of the character described, means provided with an inscription constituting a question, and means normally concealed provided with an appropriate answer and vwith additional display means related to or connected with said answer, said concealed means being adapted to be withdrawn from the rst mentioned means and exposed to viewto present the answer together with the additional display means.

2. In a device of the character described, means provided with an inscription constituting a question, means normally concealed provided with an American flag as an appropriate answer to the question, and additional display means related to and connected with said American flag, said concealed means and additional display means being adapted to be withdrawn from the first mentioned means and exposed to View to present the to the question, means normally concealed American flag and the additional display adapted to be displayed t0 present an admeans. ditional answer, and display means related 10 3. .In a device of the character described, `tofand y connected with the normally con- 5 means provided with ari-inscription consticealed means` and adapted to be exposed t0 'tuting a question, said means being ap- View together With the latter. propriately shaped topconstitute an answer v ALFRED GARTNER.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for ve cents each, 'by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C. 

